Names 1. They're separated because other data sinks you share with want them separated, like the tax office. 2. They're separated because people want to call

Names 1. They're separated because other data sinks you share with want them separated, like the tax office. 2. They're separated because people want to call you by your first or last name depending on the situation, and they don't want to force you to fill in every variation. What's your name; what's the name you want us to call you; what's your name we should put on any mail to you; what's your "more formal name" like we'd use if we sued you? Addresses 2. That is often a requirement of postal offices. They're pretty amazing in that they work at all but a lot of that is because street, suburb, state, country, are often on different lines. (But of course some countries have completely and utterly different differentiations for this, too).